Director Julie Taymor made the importance of having the animals, which play a big part in the story, represented through costumes, masks, and puppets when it was first being put to the stage in 1997. Taymor also devised a concept to theatrically represent the story and heart of show on stage with what she called the double event. The double event is the representation of the animals through the costumes, puppets, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM on April 17, 2018